Question on OSD #5

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Nov 27 07:58:29 UTC 2007


Quoting Matthew Flaschen (matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu):

> It doesn't explicitly say, but GPLv2 would seem to have passed Debian's
> notorious Dissident Test (http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html),
> so I'd assume yes.

As a brief digression and reminder:  Neither the Dissident Test nor the
Desert Island Test, nor the Tentacles of Evil Test, nor the "DFSG FAQ"
where they reside, _has any role whatsoever_ in Debian Project
governance.  They are not "Debian's", in that substantive sense, but
rather are the personal views of several people who post to the public
debian-legal mailing list, including Debian developer Barak A.
Pearlmutter.

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